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Good evening. I'm afraid I begin
with some sad news.
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We've lost two of our greatest men,
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The great radio astronomer,
Sir Bernard Lovell,
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and also we've lost Neil Armstrong,
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the first man to set foot
on the surface of the moon.
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And of course, we'll be talking
about those,
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but on the good side, the Curiosity
probe has landed safely upon Mars,
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is working well, and sending back
a mass of information.
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With me is Chris Lintott.
Evening, Patrick.
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I can't wait to talk about
Curiosity,
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but we should start by talking about
both Neil Armstrong and Sir Bernard.
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You were involved in the early days
at Jodrell Bank.
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Very early days at Jodrell Bank.
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That great telescope was only
a madman's dream in those days,
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and Bernard was working on radar
and he wanted meteor trails,
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and so a lot of us were lying
on our backs outside
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where the theatre now is,
plotting meteor trails.
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This was inspired by the fact
they'd seen during the war,
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they'd seen that they got radar
echoes from things in space,
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from meteors, and so that
became a whole new field of research.
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What was he like as a person